March 4, 2014, New York – The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would not hear Center for Constitutional Rights v. Obama , a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency’s...
Come join CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren this October 15-19 th for the National Lawyer’s Guild- Law for the People Convention 2008 featuring a broad selection of panels,...
Updated: October 8, 2008
Vince Warren to deliver keynote address at Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) is hosting this event at the...
Updated: November 21, 2008
July 28, 2015A complaint lodged with the Pentagon has prompted the U.S. Navy to look into the possible presence of anything that may cause cancer in a section of the base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a military...
July 12, 2015Even as it prepares for a courtroom showdown over the use of prolonged solitary confinement to keep order in its prisons, California has adopted emergency rules to dial down such isolation. Inmates...
August 7, 2015The chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), who was involved in firing Professor Steven Salaita over tweets he sent about Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza, has announced her...
September 1, 2015Thousands of California prison inmates who have been in solitary confinement – some for more than 30 years – will be released into the general prison population under a legal settlement announced...
December 28, 2015In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country. If they...
January 7, 2016..."This settlement is important in light of escalating anti-Muslim rhetoric and hate crimes in the U.S., but at the same time we hope Mayor de Blasio will be more vocal about why the department was...
President Obama has submitted a plan to Congress to close Guantánamo Bay military prison. Despite Obama’s pledge to close the facility as one of his first acts...
Updated: February 24, 2016
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